The German holiday airline Tuifly and the pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit broke off negotiations on possible job cuts without any result. The management around company boss Oliver Lackmann is said to have left the table. The company plans to halve the fleet due to the crisis.

Accordingly, fewer staff will be needed in the future, and the Tui Group wants to reduce this. According to one Report from Airliners.de, which refers to a circular from the Tuifly management and the VC collective bargaining commission, failed because the employee representatives wanted to rely purely on natural fluctuation. However, that was not enough for the company, which obviously also wants to cut back for operational reasons.

The Tui Group in particular has repeatedly been in the crossfire of criticism from trade unions in recent months, because the group was saved by the Federal Republic of Germany with an amount worth billions. The employee representatives are snubbed that, in their opinion, tax money is not used to keep jobs but to cut jobs. The demand in tourism is currently extremely poor, which could be due, among other things, to the unpredictable entry and quarantine regulations, a new “lockdown wave”, but also fomenting of fears or targeted “badging” of stays abroad.